Merle
Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation2025 rank
#3,485
up +1,169 places
2025 births
33
up +11 births
All-time births
30,666
0% of them in 2025
More common than
99%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 1925
- 836 births
- Best rank
- #170
- in 1918
- First recorded
- 1880
- #437 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1936
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 146 of 146
- unbroken
Top five years
- 1925836#175Peak
- 1922835#172
- 1921833#173
- 1920819#171
- 1927808#179
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #170 in 1918 · peak births 836 in 1925
Boys and girls
Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.
● 68% boys■ 32% girls
30,666 boys · 14,723 girls, all time
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Merle has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.